The Nativity is a 2010 British four-part drama television series. The series is a re-telling of the nativity and was broadcast on BBC One and BBC HD across four days, starting on 20 December 2010. It was rebroadcast in two hour-long parts on the mornings of 24 and 25 December 2011. 　　The series stars Tatiana Maslany as Mary Andrew Buchan as Joseph Neil Dudgeon as Joachim Claudie Blakley as Anna Peter Capaldi as Balthasar and John Lynch as Gabriel.